Whenever I walk around I carry a five inch pruning shear tool 5 inches
long only has a 1.5 inch cutting edge. Also carry a 6 inch Japanese
carpenter knife. Those are real light and my next choice a Japanese
Knife Trowel but it weights too much and remains not assessable.

So A long winded question is do you have a light tool that can do spur
of the moment work ?

Those tools mentioned could go on a key chain yet enable the hand to do
more.

Bill Place in Canada sells both.

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Garden in shade zone 5 S Jersey USA

Not all who wander are lost.
- J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973)

On 5/3/2009 9:09 AM, Bill wrote:
Whenever I walk around I carry a five inch pruning shear tool 5 inches
long only has a 1.5 inch cutting edge. Also carry a 6 inch Japanese
carpenter knife. Those are real light and my next choice a Japanese
Knife Trowel but it weights too much and remains not assessable.

So A long winded question is do you have a light tool that can do spur
of the moment work ?

Those tools mentioned could go on a key chain yet enable the hand to do
more.

Bill Place in Canada sells both.


Summer being our dry season, I leave my primary tools on my patio.
These are hand pruning shears, a paring knife, a bucket, and a kneeling
bench. (See my http://www.rossde.com/garden/tools.html.)

I like to wander through my garden daily even if I'm not planning any
serious gardening tasks. If I see a weed, I pull it. If I see a faded
flower, I remove it. Then, on the days when I indeed do serious
gardening, much of the puttering is already done.

--
David E. Ross
Climate: California Mediterranean
Sunset Zone: 21 -- interior Santa Monica Mountains with some ocean
influence (USDA 10a, very close to Sunset Zone 19)
Gardening diary at http://www.rossde.com/garden/diary

On 5/3/09 1:09 PM, in article
net, "David E. Ross"
wrote:

On 5/3/2009 9:09 AM, Bill wrote:
Whenever I walk around I carry a five inch pruning shear tool 5 inches
long only has a 1.5 inch cutting edge. Also carry a 6 inch Japanese
carpenter knife. Those are real light and my next choice a Japanese
Knife Trowel but it weights too much and remains not assessable.

So A long winded question is do you have a light tool that can do spur
of the moment work ?

Those tools mentioned could go on a key chain yet enable the hand to do
more.

Bill Place in Canada sells both.


Summer being our dry season, I leave my primary tools on my patio.
These are hand pruning shears, a paring knife, a bucket, and a kneeling
bench. (See my http://www.rossde.com/garden/tools.html.)

I like to wander through my garden daily even if I'm not planning any
serious gardening tasks. If I see a weed, I pull it. If I see a faded
flower, I remove it. Then, on the days when I indeed do serious
gardening, much of the puttering is already done.

I try to carry a sharp trowel.


C

"Bill" wrote in message

Whenever I walk around I carry a five inch pruning shear tool 5 inches
long only has a 1.5 inch cutting edge. Also carry a 6 inch Japanese
carpenter knife. Those are real light and my next choice a Japanese
Knife Trowel but it weights too much and remains not assessable.

So A long winded question is do you have a light tool that can do spur
of the moment work ?

I carry an Asian tool that is about 12 inches long and has a curved blade
with a serrated edge that looks like a minature brush cutter. It can rip
off small branches or dig out weeds or just cut off veg that I want to
harvest or a heap of other things. Best tool I ever bought in terms of
usefulness.

"Jangchub" wrote in message

A key to my weed keeping is to never let it go to seed. I fail
miserably, but I aspire!

Snap!

"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote in message
...
"Bill" wrote in message

Whenever I walk around I carry a five inch pruning shear tool 5 inches
long only has a 1.5 inch cutting edge. Also carry a 6 inch Japanese
carpenter knife. Those are real light and my next choice a Japanese
Knife Trowel but it weights too much and remains not assessable.

So A long winded question is do you have a light tool that can do spur
of the moment work ?

I carry an Asian tool that is about 12 inches long and has a curved blade
with a serrated edge that looks like a minature brush cutter. It can rip
off small branches or dig out weeds or just cut off veg that I want to
harvest or a heap of other things. Best tool I ever bought in terms of
usefulness.

Whenever I walk about my property I carry a contractor's bucket containing
an array of small tools; a hand cultivator and trowel, small Fiskar's
loppers (they're wonderful), a small anvil pruner, a small bow saw, a
hammer, roofing nails, posted signs, and a chisel (to knock off tops of
boulders that pop into my mowed areas), a water bottle, and some other items
including a machete on my belt... distances are great and the bucket is also
handy for bringing things back, the wind can blow trash long distances, and
I have a neighbor who likes to drive golf balls into my woods, I often
return with more than 50 brand new premium balls and I don't return them.

Everyone needs these: http://tinyurl.com/cvpprn

http://www.fiskars.com/webapp/wcs/st...&page=products

Bill who putters frequently .

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putter 3 ( Brit. potter)
verb [ intrans. ]
occupy oneself in a desultory but pleasant manner, doing a number of
small tasks or not concentrating on anything particular : early morning
is the best time of the day to putter around in the garden.
? [with adverbial of direction ] move or go in a casual, unhurried way :
the duck putters on the surface of the pond.
DERIVATIVES
putterer noun
ORIGIN late 19th cent. (originally U.S.): alteration of potter 1 .

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Garden in shade zone 5 S Jersey USA

Not all who wander are lost.
- J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973)